Buggy top bow peoteotoe



(No Model.)

J. .R. GREVISTON.

BUGGY TOP BOW PROTEGTOR.

Patented Dec. 22,1885.

f zw UNrTn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN RETURN GREVISTON,'OF UN IONVILLE, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS W. FRASIER, OF POLLOOK, MISSOURI.

BUGGY-TOP-BOW PROTECTOR.

S'L ECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent Np. 333,058, dated December 22, 1885.

Application filed October 26, 1885. Serial No. 180,973. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN R. OREVISTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Unionville, in the county of Putnam and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in 'Buggy-Top-Bow Protectors; and I do declare the following to beafull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

:5 This invention relates to improvements in buggy-top-bow protectors, and has for its object to produce a simple, cheap, and efficient device that can be readily attached and adapted to any buggy or vehicle having a folding top, to prevent injury to the bows or supports thereof in case the top should be rapidly folded, as is often done, thus causing the fracture of one or more of the supports.

The novelty consists in the details of construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view ofa buggy provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the protector detached, parts being broken away to better show the construction. Fig. 3 is a top view oflhe same. Fig. 4 is a front View of the bow-clip detached,and shown on an enlarged scale; and Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of a burr which it is sometimes necessary to use.

Similar letters represent corresponding parts throughout the different figures.

A is the body, B the seat, and C the top, of a buggy, which top consists of the bows D, cover F, hinged braces E, and the iron G, of ordinary construction and arrangement, and are shown to illustrate the application of my improvement. The top is hinged to the iron G at H, and the side brace is pivoted to the opposite end of the iron at J. The support I is pivoted at one end of the pivot of the hingejoint H, and its free end is provided with a clip, K, which embraces the rear bow of the 50 top. This support is of a length slightly greater than the distance between the two points H and J, in order that the outer end may rest upon the jointJwhen the top is thrown down, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 1.

The support I consists of a cast-metal head, L, clip K, bolt M, spring N, and the extension or connecting rod 0. The cast-metal head L has a slot or mortise, Z, formed in one end, and a projection, P, on its other end, through which an opening, 10, extends, which terminates in a recess or cavity, 1). A corresponding cavity, 19 is formed in the lower end of the clip K, and the arms of its upper bifurcated end terminate in threaded stems, on

which a yoke, Q, is mounted and held in place by nuts 9. The bolt M passes loosely through an opening in the clip and the opening 1) in the head, and has a nut on its lower end. The rod is of sufficient length to allow a considerable play between the clip and head. The coil-spring N ,interposed between the parts and surrounding the bolt, is seated in the cavities p p, and has its tension regulated by the nut and threaded end of the bolt M.

The extension-rod O is made of wrought metal, and is preferably rectangular in crosssection. One end of this rodis slightly curved and provided with an eye, 0, by which it is mounted on the pivot of the hinge H. The other end is inserted in the slot Z in the head, and is suitably secured therein, either by casting or soldering; but I prefer to rivet or bolt the same therein, so it can be readily removed to replace one or the other part. Wooden pieces S are bolted to each side of the rod to strengthen and fill the same flush with the sides of the head L.

In practice, the protector being adjusted to a vehicle, as represented in Fig. 1, and the top thrown rapidly back, the free end of the support will strike the back hinge-joint, J, and the spring Nwill relieve the bow of the shock, which it would otherwise receive if the bow struck the unyielding joint.

By means of the clip the protector can be adjusted to any top, and cannot be accidentally displaced.

It will sometimes be necessary to use an additional burr, a, in order to accurately adjust the supports in position, as owing to the dif- 100 ferent styles of buggy-tops the support will not always be easily applied' The cylindrical portion 1; is passed through the eye 0, and the pivot of the hinge, as H, will enter the internally-screw-threaded opening 0.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A protector for the purposes described, consisting of the following elements in combination: a rigid extension-arm terminating in a vertically-apertured head, a coincidently-apertured clip, a bolt passed through the apertures of the clip and head, and a spring interposed between the clip and head, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The cast-metal head slotted at one end and provided with an apertured extension at the other, in combination with the extensionarln seated in the slotted end and strengthened by side pieces, and the clip yieldingly secured to the apertured end of the head, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination,with the head vertically apertured, and having a recess formedin its crown, of a clip having its lower end recessed, its upper end bifurcated, the branched ends terminating in threaded shanks,a yoke mounted thereon and secured by nuts, a bolt uniting the clip and head, and a coiled springsurrounding the bolt, and interposed between the parts and seated in the recesses, substantially as described.

- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN RETURN GREVISTON.

YVitnesses: U. G. MORRO'W,

A. J. MOINTIRE. 

